Tag: OpenAI

Dario Amodei is (1) the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude. (2) a former Vice President of Research at OpenAI who led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3. (3) a Princeton-trained biophysicist with a PhD in neural-circuit electrophysiology. (4) a $7 billion billionaire as of February 2026 per Forbes. (5) the […]

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. An independent 2025 benchmark put Claude Sonnet […]

For the first time since ChatGPT launched, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in US business adoption. Ramp’s April 2026 AI Index, published on May 13, puts Anthropic at 34.4% of tracked enterprise spending versus OpenAI at 32.3%. Anthropic added 3.8 percentage points in a single month while OpenAI fell 2.9. A year ago, OpenAI sat near […]

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a typical chatbot reply. The scary viral ~500 mL “per email” number comes from also counting the electricity supply chain, which is why estimates span more […]

ChatGPT Personal Finance is the biggest expansion of ChatGPT’s role in your daily life since memory, and it’s also the most polarizing. OpenAI launched the Personal Finance preview on May 15, 2026, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the United States only. Plaid powers the bank connections, with support for more than 12,000 banks, brokerages, and […]

How much energy does ChatGPT use? A single query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, roughly what an oven draws in a little over one second. Independent analysis by Epoch AI puts a typical GPT-4o query near 0.3 Wh, about the same as one Google search. The catch is […]

Sam Altman is (1) the CEO of OpenAI, (2) the executive who steered the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, (3) the former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, (4) a billionaire venture investor worth an estimated $2 to $3.3 billion as of May 2026, and (5) one of the most influential people in artificial […]

How much water does ChatGPT use? OpenAI’s own figure, stated by CEO Sam Altman, is about 0.000085 gallons per query, roughly 0.32 mL or one fifteenth of a teaspoon, alongside 0.34 watt-hours of electricity. Independent estimates that count only data-center cooling land a little higher, around 1.5 to 4 mL per prompt. The scary viral […]

ChatGPT for Teachers is free for verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2027. The plan gives you unlimited messages with GPT-5.1 Auto, a secure education-grade workspace, and FERPA-aligned privacy where your data is not used to train OpenAI’s models by default. Eligibility covers teachers, school staff, and district administrators at accredited U.S. K-12 schools, verified […]

ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company founded on December 11, 2015 by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman and a small group of researchers. ChatGPT itself was built by OpenAI’s research team and launched publicly on November 30, 2022. It reached 1 million users in […]